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Date: 16 Jun 98 11:27:13 EDT
From: Amy.M.Hollywood-AT-Dartmouth.EDU (Amy M. Hollywood)
Subject: Re: Less definite sexes


Thanks for the info about Faust-Sterling's recent talk. I absolutely gree that
such anatomical indeterminacy has to be paid attention to in attempts to
disrupt dualisms of gender AND sexual difference. On the other hand, much of
the distress of those judged "indeterminate" within our culture is that same
culture's insistance -- crucial to our formations as subjects -- that there are
only two sexes.

I am reminded of this point and its theoretical ramifications by Jay Prosser's
recent book on transsexuality (Second Skins: The Body Narratives of
Transsexuality), in which he argues that "postmodern" privileging of
indeterminacy is unable to take seriously the self-constructed narratives of
transsexual people, in which the desire for determinacy plays a key role. Well
that seems to be the argument so far. I haven't finished the book yet. Has
anyone? 

Best, Amy 


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